StyleGuide: a guide to the writing customs and the culture of the wiki.
The "Guard": the person who watches the wiki pages and ensures that spam or bad edits are not entered, undermining the hard work of the wikiauthors.
A wiki farm is a set of wiki installations on a same server which are in some way linked.
"MediaWiki is a free software package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by other wikis including Mediawiki.org. It is designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day.
Wikimedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc which is a non-profit charitable organization with headquarters in San Francisco, California.
Open link: Accidental open links are a problem in wikis resulting from a wiki writer not checking to see if a page exists before creating a page with the same content, but under a different Wikiword.
Refactoring is the process of editing existing wiki pages to create new ones; basically rewriting and restructuring.
A WikiBadge is a wiki search feature described as a page, which you can add as a link to other pages, usually at the bottom of the page to mark them in some way.
Tracking allows all wiki updates to be monitored and when students are involved it allows student participation to be assessed.
The signature tool which is available on some wikis is used when a wiki is in edit and if the signature tool icon is clicked a wikiusername is added to the editing text area.
Editing refers to the process by which a page is altered. Unless certain restrictions are in effect, all pages are editable, by everyone.
Terms Defined
StyleGuide: a guide to the writing customs and the culture of the wiki.
The "Guard": the person who watches the wiki pages and ensures that spam or bad edits are not entered, undermining the hard work of the wikiauthors.
A wiki farm is a set of wiki installations on a same server which are in some way linked.
"MediaWiki is a free software package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by other wikis including Mediawiki.org. It is designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day.
Wikimedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc which is a non-profit charitable organization with headquarters in San Francisco, California.
Open link: Accidental open links are a problem in wikis resulting from a wiki writer not checking to see if a page exists before creating a page with the same content, but under a different Wikiword.
Refactoring is the process of editing existing wiki pages to create new ones; basically rewriting and restructuring.
A WikiBadge is a wiki search feature described as a page, which you can add as a link to other pages, usually at the bottom of the page to mark them in some way.
Tracking allows all wiki updates to be monitored and when students are involved it allows student participation to be assessed.
The signature tool which is available on some wikis is used when a wiki is in edit and if the signature tool icon is clicked a wikiusername is added to the editing text area.
Editing refers to the process by which a page is altered. Unless certain restrictions are in effect, all pages are editable, by everyone.